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Category Archives: Photography

This is the second of three blog posts this week about Flickr. Today’s is about Instagram’s new terms of use and how Flickr beats it in terms of features. Oh Instagram. We used to love you for allowing us to … Continue reading →

This is the first of three blog posts this week about Flickr. Today’s is about Flickr’s new iPhone app. A week ago Flickr unveiled a brand new version of its iPhone app. It’s the first update in almost a year, … Continue reading →

Every year Flickr asks its users to nominate their favourite image that they have taken that year, so this year, I’ve submitted the above picture to the Your Best Shot 2012 pool. It was taken back in February at the … Continue reading →

The photo above is a panoramic view of Bradford’s City Park from last night. Although my iPhone 5 is capable of doing panoramic photos with relative ease, I actually took this as 10 separate photos on my DSLR camera, and … Continue reading →

This week, Bradford’s multi-million pound City Park is playing host to the ‘Garden of Light’, a series of temporary light constructions. They’re illuminated from dusk until 10pm each night, and accompanied by a number of street entertainers. I popped out … Continue reading →

Traditionally, if you’ve wanted to take a picture of yourself using your own camera, you’ve either had to ask someone to hold it, or put it on a steady surface or tripod, set a timer and then run around to … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I had a lot of photos to upload to Flickr, and I’m certainly getting there. I’ve previously mentioned the Newby Hall pictures, and now have most of the photos I took in … Continue reading →

Over the Mayday weekend, Christine and I went to Newby Hall with my parents. It’s a privately owned manor house, which, along with its extensive gardens, is open to the public. I used to go there a lot when I … Continue reading →

About three weeks ago I wrote a blog post called ‘Is Flickr Dying?’, which was primarily a response to an article on Gizmodo called How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet. My summary was that Flickr is not in … Continue reading →

The internets are abuzz with an article on Gizmodo entitled How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet. It’s worth a read; as someone who has been on Flickr for 8 years now and was there before it was purchased … Continue reading →

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A geek from Yorkshire who writes about his Mac, iPhone, Foursquare, social media, computing in general and anything else that takes his fancy. Has a computing degree and works in an admin/marketing job at a university, and lives with his wife in a small town in a valley.